WELL OF JOY Location: Kumrovec Category: Wells and fountains

In late 1982, the Council of Kumrovec Memorial Park adopted conceptual landscape solution of "Well of joy," whose authors are: academic painter Edo Kovačević, engineer Dragutin Kiš and engineer Berislav Šerbetić. On the 40th anniversary of the Union of the pioneers of Yugoslavia began the process of collecting pebbles to create a mosaic by “Art Competition”, which involved 696 schools with 7,274 works of art of the former Yugoslavia. From 7.274 art works, a total of 505 art works were selected. Art works are collected pebbles in streams, rivers, sea shores and mountain trails, that ware incorporated in the mosaics "Well of joy" that symbolized the presence of all the countries and provinces of the former Yugoslavia in Kumrovec.

 

Coordinates: 46.075577, 15.673683

 

Additional info:

Fountain of joy on the Kumrovec municipality website (in Croatian language)